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The two communicate by text: An sends singing videos with their face prettified by a filter; Star, a stream-of-consciousness barrage of messages and voice mail messages that usually go unacknowledged.

Her prettified version, sapped of political power, looks like part of a low-impact exercise class in the park.

In their telling, she added, “rivers were supposed to be prettified, we were supposed to generate significant quantities of clean electricity and local communities were promised it will all benefit them greatly.”

Graf’s approach is admirably less enamored with the prettifying impulses so many filmmakers rely on to capture the past, and instead centered on putting us inside it.

Even these startlingly grim numbers have been heavily prettified by Root, who has been papering over some tectonic faults in his team's batting.